SEOUL — A knot of people jostled and shoved each other on Wednesday (Oct 25) in a narrow alleyway in Seoul, before filing patiently past a barricade of police officers in a crowd control drill held ahead of the one-year anniversary of a deadly Halloween crush.
People walk through an alley in Itaewon where the Halloween crowd crush occurred last year, in Seoul, South Korea, Oct 23, 2023.
"The drill focused on how to ensure the safety of citizens by monitoring the situation in real time with the help of cutting-edge science and technology," said the city's mayor, Oh Se-hoon. "It used to be visual assessment in the past, but now we're operating CCTV... which enables video analysis," said city safety official Ahn Hyoung-jun, adding that the information gathered would compensate for human error.
Many families of the victims of last year's disaster say the police investigation left many questions unanswered, while deploring that nobody had been held responsible for the deaths.
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